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This week I bought a Rhodia lined spiral note pad. It’s approximately 6” x 10”. I like a few things about it: Right before the back cover is a stiff piece of cardboard that’s about a quarter-inch thick. Great! Now I can write on it without a flat surface. Also, I can tear pages out easily, thanks to the perforations on the top of each page. And the covers are aesthetically pleasing – the only colors on them are orange, gray, white and black. They remind me of that style of modern art incorporating straight lines to make rectangles and squares with filled with different solid colors.

I like it!

Tonight I watched Howard Zinn and Gino Strada on CSPAN2. The two were speaking about attaining world peace in general.

After watching Zinn lecture, I want to read his People’s History of the United States, and, I guess, his newest book, Just War.

Zinn brought up a supposed obstacle in the way of world peace about which I’ve always wondered: the notion that war is part of human nature. He said people often bring this up. He said that those who bring it up must consider that countries work so very hard to manufacture consent for war (forgive my appreciative allusion to Chomsky). Countries wouldn’t have to work as hard as they do, he said – or work at all – if war is part of human nature.